HANDLING OF GEMENT.
—.V - — AUCKLAND WATETCBIDERS AND WARKWORTH CO. ALLEGATIONS OF VICTIMISATION. (Per Press Association!) AUCKLAND. A^vil 7. The Auckland Waterside Workers' Vnwn has been asked not to handle cement from tho Warkworth Cement Co., it being alleged that members of the Cement AVorkers' Union, which ondy is affiliated to tho ■Federation of I*abour, have been subjected-to victimisation. The union (took a ballot on the question of secoflinc from the Fwlerntmn, tho propo-al heina; rejected by ■',' +'? 17. after which forty men wcra dism^Red by the company, including tho secretary of the union, on the grounds oi -slackness, of work, though ibo union state that when work a era in became Lrisk other men were taken on in thei<piacos. Tho company assert that the man v.ero dispensed with owing to real Slackness ot work. «nnd they deny that there was any victimisation. The bocichirr of tho Watorsiders' Union lonves for Wnr-kworth to-day to investigate tne allegations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 12881, 8 April 1913, Page 8
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